Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:17:23 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: Umesh Vaishampayan <umeshv@apple.com> Cc: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Darwin and FreeBSD on PPC Message-ID: <20010930141722.A91046@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <DDA30F70-B467-11D5-B102-000A27898EC8@apple.com>; from umeshv@apple.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0700 References: <20010928173241.A27363@electricjellyfish.net> <DDA30F70-B467-11D5-B102-000A27898EC8@apple.com>
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0700, Umesh Vaishampayan wrote: > > On Friday, September 28, 2001, at 02:32 PM, Garrett Rooney wrote: > > > (for example their /dev/random is a port of the > > FreeBSD /dev/random) > > Not really. There was a patch that did a port. But the code that is > checked is based on the Security Server we had in 10.0. ahh, i stand corrected. i was under the impression that louis's port of /dev/random had been adopted, but it's been a while since i've followed the darwin mailing lists, so i guess i'm out of date. > > but their kernel is derived from NextStep, > > Well... > > At NeXT we had Mach 2.x+4.3BSD+DriverKit. > In Darwin Mach 2.X is replaced by Mach 3.x > 4.3BSD ia replaced by 4.4BSD Lites2 + FreeBSD 3.X networking > DriverKit is replaced by IOKit. in any case, substantial portions of darwin are different enough from FreeBSD to make using code from Darwin for the FreeBSD ppc port difficult. -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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